Ball State budget cut millions by state

9:27 PM,
Jan. 11, 2013

Jo Ann Gora chats with local high school students during a lunch at Bracken House.

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For the third biennium in a row, Ball State University is facing cuts in state appropriations because of Indiana's performance-based funding formula, President Jo Ann Gora complained to the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee this week.

"If you take these sums of money and look at them cumulatively, the impact is over $77 million, and this is unsustainable," Gora told The Star Press.

A state official says the decrease in funding is tied to BSU's decline in the production of bachelor's degrees, while Ball State says it is being punished for becoming more selective. ...